Indigenous Works and Sprott School of Business: Collaboration for reconciliation in action

Indigenous Works and Sprott School of Business: Collaboration for Reconciliation in Action

Principal Investigator: Rick Colbourne, Management
Project Title: Indigenous Works and Sprott School of Business: Collaboration for Reconciliation in Action
Collaborator: Dana Brown, Management
Funder: SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

In seeking to act on reconciliation and indigenization, business schools across Canada are struggling to develop respectful, mutually beneficial ways to engage with Indigenous peoples, communities and organizations. The research partnership between Indigenous Works and the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University will demonstrate how true reciprocal and mutually beneficial engagement strategies can be developed to facilitate reconciliation and indigenization that transforms post secondary institutions and business schools. Partnership and collaboration are at the core of this research initiative and drives the shared desire to contribute to understanding the essential dynamics and mechanisms of transformational collaborative partnerships between Indigenous communities, organizations and post secondary business schools. Utilizing a Two-Eyed Seeing/Two Row Wampum framework provides guidance and instruction on how to link Indigenous and ways of knowing and being within an ethical space of engagement.

This research will generate wholistic knowledge about methods and processes for initiating, managing and maintaining Indigenous-led collaborative research partnerships that make deep and meaningful contributions to the self-determination and well-being of Indigenous peoples, communities and organizations.